Muhammad Ali Quotes On Life, Love and Being a Champion

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to god.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

A man who has no imagination has no wings.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

One person with knowledge of his life’s purpose is more powerful than ten thousand working without that knowledge.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Life is short; we get old so fast. It doesn’t make sense to waste time on hating.